Always read the small print. Good advice and nowhere more so than in food labelling with today?s increasingly savvy consumers demanding to know what?s in their food, where it came from and what it?s going to do to them.

Enhanced hygiene, ease of cleaning and cost savings are benefits claimed by Bizerba for its new checkweigher for unpackaged food products.

The European Parliament yesterday backed proposals to extend country of origin labelling (COOL) to all meat, poultry and fish and dairy products.

Bemis has signed definitive agreements to sell off two of its US packaging operations aquired as part of the Alcan takeover for $81m to Exopack Holding Corps.

The meat processing industry has welcomed a report from the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) ruling out the risk of humans contracting the H1N1 virus from pork, pork products, turkey or processing equipment.

Spray washing chicken carcasses with a solution of lauric acid and potassium hydroxide could help processors design practical and non-chlorine-based sanitisers, said the US Agricultural Research Service (ARS).

Sorry guys, the World Cup is not all about football. It?s about food too, and this year?s tournament should kick off a whole new debate about our sporting food culture.

Campylobacter in raw chicken is the biggest food safety challenge facing the UK today, said the Food Standards Agency (FSA) as it admitted the cost and burden of foodborne illnesses was too high.

Improved standards in hygiene, safety and speed, as well as energy and space savings are claims made for its new labelling system for thermoformers by Multivac.

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is appealing for new data on the health and welfare of cloned farm animals as the debate on their regulatory status continues.